User equipments (UEs) can be efficiently clustered into groups of UEs where a UE of a group can be selected as a host UE to communicate with a radio access network (RAN) on behalf of other UEs in the group. A resource manager component can receive information, including predictive information of predicted future UE performance or characteristics, relating to respective power availability, signal strength, data performance, and transit vectors of respective UEs from UEs in an area, and determine which UEs are to be clustered in a group and which UE(s) of the group is to be a host UE(s) for the group based on such information. The host UE can facilitate communications between the other UEs in the group and the RAN. The resource manager component also can employ a round-robin technique for substantially equal sharing of duties as host UE among multiple UEs of the group.
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20. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the respective attributes comprise respective resource availability attributes and respective performance attributes associated with the respective communication devices, wherein the respective resource availability attributes comprise the respective power availabilities and the respective future power availabilities, and wherein the respective future power availabilities are predicted to occur at a future time that is later than a present time.
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